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... mind and perfect taste I have been largely benefitted as a writer , and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF ...
... mind and perfect taste I have been largely benefitted as a writer , and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF ...
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... mind , to regard him as a corrupter of our style , to affirm that I dis- like the fatiguing and laborious monotony of his sentences , and , delighted as I have been with the occurrence of brilliant passages , of vigorous and original ...
... mind , to regard him as a corrupter of our style , to affirm that I dis- like the fatiguing and laborious monotony of his sentences , and , delighted as I have been with the occurrence of brilliant passages , of vigorous and original ...
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... thanks , or to impress me with any strong idea of a just and honourable mind . Of one of my translations alone has he con- descended to speak ; and of this he has judged " " it right to speak in such a manner PREFACE . 19.
... thanks , or to impress me with any strong idea of a just and honourable mind . Of one of my translations alone has he con- descended to speak ; and of this he has judged " " it right to speak in such a manner PREFACE . 19.
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... mind . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of infor- mation respecting him has been explored with a degree of solicitous minuteness , which bears honourable testimony to the impression of his importance . Unfortunately ...
... mind . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of infor- mation respecting him has been explored with a degree of solicitous minuteness , which bears honourable testimony to the impression of his importance . Unfortunately ...
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... mind of such a son ! But the reward of the father was ample ; and no one , but a parent of taste and sensi- bility under circumstances of some resem- blance , can form any estimate of the grati- fication which he must have felt from his ...
... mind of such a son ! But the reward of the father was ample ; and no one , but a parent of taste and sensi- bility under circumstances of some resem- blance , can form any estimate of the grati- fication which he must have felt from his ...
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